Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed
globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well
represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the
broader conflict. With some notable exceptions, studies have
proceeded in rather conventional channels, focusing on U.S. policy
objectives and high-profile leaders (Fidel Castro) and events (the
Cuban Missile Crisis) and drawing largely on U.S. government
sources. Moreover, only rarely have U.S. foreign relations scholars
engaged productively with Latin American historians who analyze how
the international conflict transformed the region's political,
social, and cultural life. Representing a collaboration among
eleven North American, Latin American, and European historians,
anthropologists, and political scientists, this volume attempts to
facilitate such a cross-fertilization. In the process, In From the
Cold shifts the focus of attention away from the bipolar conflict,
the preoccupation of much of the so-called "new Cold War history,"
in order to showcase research, discussion, and an array of new
archival and oral sources centering on the grassroots, where
conflicts actually brewed. The collection's contributors examine
international and everyday contests over political power and
cultural representation, focusing on communities and groups above
and underground, on state houses and diplomatic board rooms manned
by Latin American and international governing elites, on the
relations among states regionally, and, less frequently, on the
dynamics between the two great superpowers themselves. In addition
to charting new directions for research on the Latin American Cold
War, In From the Cold seeks to contribute more generally to an
understanding of the conflict in the global south. Contributors.
Ariel C. Armony, Steven J. Bachelor, Thomas S. Blanton, Seth Fein,
Piero Gleijeses, Gilbert M. Joseph, Victoria Langland, Carlota
McAllister, Stephen Pitti, Daniela Spenser, Eric Zolov
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